Irish Derailment

[Kingfisher200262]

Irish Rail has issued a tender notice today for the repair of an Inter City DMU.

"Irish Rail operates a large fleet of new DMUs manufactured by Hyundai-Rotem of Korea. There are 234 vehicles delivered or on order. The fleet entered service in Dec 2007 onwards.The vehicles are 23m end door intercity DMUs. Bodies are all stainless steel with some areas of the headstock and bolster made from high carbon steel. Bogies are manufactured by Tokyu Car of Japan.6 car unit 22037 sustained serious damage to 3 x centre vehicles during a derailment incident on Wednesday 20th January. The set derailed in a split point incident leaving the main depot. The centre 3 x vehicles all derailed in different directions but remained upright and coupled.Irish rail require repairs to bogie and body damage to these vehicles".

Anybody know what happened?

 

[Drimnagh Road]

Well the tender notice covers it all pretty much, basically 22037 derailed at Portlaoise TCD (Train Care Depot) before the evening peak. For some bizarre reason, the depot is located a staggering 50 miles away from Dublin which is where all the trains leave from and even more bizare is that there is only one way in to the depot, meaning that an incident like this can cripple services.

Below from Irish Rail website on day of incident


Some Heuston Services Reduced Capacity - Wednesday 20th January by Corporate Communications


Wednesday 20th January 16:00hrs
There will be reduced capacity on some Heuston services this evening, due to a derailment of a out of service train on a siding at Laois Traincare depot, which has also resulted in three sets due for service this evening being blocked into the depot.

A further update on services affected will be made available on this website as soon as possible.

Iarnród Éireann apologises for any inconvenience caused.

 

[Kingfisher200262]

Well the tender notice covers it all pretty much, basically 22037 derailed at Portlaoise TCD (Train Care Depot) before the evening peak. For some bizarre reason, the depot is located a staggering 50 miles away from Dublin which is where all the trains leave from and even more bizare is that there is only one way in to the depot, meaning that an incident like this can cripple services.

Below from Irish Rail website on day of incident


Some Heuston Services Reduced Capacity - Wednesday 20th January by Corporate Communications


Wednesday 20th January 16:00hrs
There will be reduced capacity on some Heuston services this evening, due to a derailment of a out of service train on a siding at Laois Traincare depot, which has also resulted in three sets due for service this evening being blocked into the depot.

A further update on services affected will be made available on this website as soon as possible.

Iarnród Éireann apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Thanks a lot. Stange that a tender notice should come out so quickly. I've never seen one for any repair job in the UK... Pendos, toppled HSTs and so on.

 

[Drimnagh Road]

Stange that a tender notice should come out so quickly. I've never seen one for any repair job in the UK... Pendos, toppled HSTs and so on.

The new ICR fleet is stretched to the limit at the moment, 2 sets were damaged in transit at sea - I think salt water got into the electrics - and were rejected by Irish Rail, also the tight diagrams which has resulted in a few high profile failures means sets out for extra maintenance.

Of course all this could have been avoided had they kept a few mk3 sets in service as standby, but because the 22000s operated very well "out of the box", they withdrew them all and only now are cracks beginning to appear in Irish Rail's self termed "Revolution".

 

[Pumbaa]

How long have the 22000s been around?

 

[Thewanderer]

The Class 22000's were introduced to passenger service on the 19th December 2007.

It looks likely that the damaged cars from Unit 22037 will be sent to the UK for repair and the undamaged cars will operate as a 3 car unit for the time being.